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Old 03-13-2002, 10:27 AM   #31
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<strong>There were leather armchairs and scifi paintings on the walls from the BattleField Earth book.</strong>
Ooooh! Ooooh! I just finished writing an <a href="http://throbert.blogspot.com" target="_blank">essay</a> about how the canonical and extra-canonical biography of Jesus can be seen as (in part) a sci-fi/horror story. I posted the URL in Biblical Criticism, where it seemed to belong, but it hasn't attracted much attention there so far.

Anyway, I'd appreciate feedback, and you shouldn't miss the links to the apocryphal Gospels, which contain many more hilariously twisted episodes than I actually cited in the essay.
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Old 03-13-2002, 10:31 AM   #32
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I think this one's even worse:



The man better be wearing a cup, or that kid's gonna need a shitload of Plenary Indulgences. (One per sperm killed, naturally...)
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Old 03-13-2002, 12:24 PM   #33
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Maybe the fact that these are available says more about us, as consumers, than it does about the religion?

From a description, at <a href="http://www.artpony.com/official/press/early_work/buddhas.htm" target="_blank">http://www.artpony.com/official/press/early_work/buddhas.htm</A> of the exhibit "Famous", described as "a social com­mentary on North American consumerism and the union of high and low art, kitsch and cul­ture":


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Advertisements for "valuable mail-order collector dolls" float on glittery gold back­grounds enlarged proportionately to the whims and speculation of those who purchase said dolls. Shelves containing multitudes of Buddha figurines, each differentiated by uniquely gaudy technicolor paint, intimidate the viewer and point out, as Robertson says, "the North American, one-in-every-colour-to­-match-your-living-room mentality." Inciden­tally, you can have the one that matched your living room for the tidy sum of $39.95. "My art does mock high, low, pop art cul­ture, but it doesn't condemn it," Robertson ex­plains.
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Old 03-13-2002, 12:31 PM   #34
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Hell no. Those dildos figure prominently in pages 22, 23, and 24 of <a href="http://iidb.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=54&t=000028&p=23" target="_blank">this thread</a>.
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Old 03-13-2002, 12:43 PM   #35
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As we were taught in elementry school:

Shout "NO!" and run away.....Seriously, what's Jesus trying to do with that baton?

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Old 03-13-2002, 03:56 PM   #36
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Shout "NO!" and run away.....Seriously, what's Jesus trying to do with that baton?


[ March 13, 2002: Message edited by: Sakpo ]</strong>
You people have naughty, sin filled minds. I would have never even noticed where that baton is going if you hadn't mentioned it!
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Old 03-13-2002, 10:17 PM   #37
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Jesus takes the handoff, he sidesteps right and jukes left. BIG HOLE up the middle...he's at the 40, the 30, the 20, he...could...go...all...the....FUMBLE!!!!!!!!!!!
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<strong>Jesus takes the handoff, he sidesteps right and jukes left. BIG HOLE up the middle...he's at the 40, the 30, the 20, he...could...go...all...the....FUMBLE!!!!!!!!!!!</strong>
Oh man! Thanks a lot, you damn near made me drop the laptop! Classic!

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